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Every time you take a picture with your digital camera, it stores a whole bunch…of data about your shot in the file along with the picture data.…This data is called metadata.…It's basically data about the picture data.…The date and time you shot, all of your exposure parameters, your white…balance settings, every parameter you might change for your shot is stored in…the metadata, and you can very easily view the metadata for any image in the Capture NX browser.…Just select the image, open the Metadata palette, and here we go.…

We've got a whole bunch of metadata grouped into two different categories:…there's File & Camera Information and there's XMP/IPTC Information.…File Info is simply the file name, date and time that it was modified, the size of…the file, the Camera Size setting, that was set for the largest setting.…There's no real standard for this File Info, so some fields may be filled in by…some cameras, others won't.…I don't know why these are divided into these two groups.…I don't know if that's Capture NX doing that or if it's something about the way…

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2/23/2012

In this course, photographer and teacher Ben Long shows how to use the Nikon Capture NX2 photo-editing software to perform nondestructive sharpening, white balancing, tonal and color corrections, and more. The course covers how to set preferences and define an efficient postproduction workflow, how to perform and automate a wide variety of image edits, how to work with RAW files, and how to get the best results when printing.